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- Luckily no one was seriously hurt when a school bus toppled over on the Major Deegan Expressway; authorties say that the kids' seatbelts might have saved them - check out this picture from Newsday

Times Square will be closed to vehicles tomorrow starting at 4PM. Basically, the viewing sections start fillingn up starting at 43rd Street, moving up Broadway and Seventh Avenue all the way to Central Park. For more information about security in Times Square on New Year's, here's the official press release. And for more information about getting your party on in Times Square, check out what the Times Square Bid says.

The NY Times gave Times Square the 100th Birthday treatment this weekend. Some articles Gothamist found interesting:
- A look at 10 movies that feature Times Square (from the Sweet Smell of Success to 13 Going on 30)
- Times reporter David Dunlap on Times Square businesses
- An evolution of Times Square
- Perspectives from people who work around or love Times Square, like a pyschic on 41st Street, a theater junkie, and a resident

More: Look at Times Square from the Earth Cam. Here's some very limited information about Times Square's 100th Anniversary from the Times Square Bid; apparently there will be activities, but there are no details. The Times Square website is interesting, but no other birthday details. The Times on Times Square's Duffy Square and the NY Times-Times Square name connection (it has something to do with the subway...). Also, the NY Times Times Square building is a city landmark.

Other security measures being taken for New Year's in Times Square: Manholes welded; mailboxes, garbage cans, and vending machines removed; snipers on rooftops; hundreds of police officers on duty, many in plainclothes (Mayor Bloomberg said, "You're going to see a lot of cops there. There'll be a lot more cops that you don't see."). The Department of Homeland Security granted New York's request for extra air support, as if it was going to say no.

Cyndi Lauper will be ringing in the New Year at Times Square with the Mayor and thousands of other people. If you're interesting in braving the crowds of tourists and drunks there, here is more information from the Times Square Bid.